Helmut Willke

Helmut Willke (* May 30, 1945 in Tailfingen ) is Professor of Global Governance at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen with visiting professorships in Washington, DC, Geneva and Vienna.

Life

Willke, who grew up in Tettnang, studied law and sociology from 1968 in Tübingen and Cologne. In 1975 he received his doctorate in Tübingen with a thesis on "the status and criticism of the newer theory of human rights, steps to a normative system theory ". Supervisor of the thesis was the constitutional lawyer Günter durig. In 1982 he received - even during his habilitation process - a professorship at the University of Bielefeld. In 1982 he habilitated in Cologne with his work on the "disenchantment of the state".

Of special importance is the scientific work of Helmut Willke for the sociological systems theory. Willke further developments of the theory work of Niklas Luhmann caused by it has expanded in the field of planning and decision theory to aspects of social control. It goes Willke believe that government control skills are present, however, limited by the complexity of modern societies. In particular, the systems theory of autopoiesis Kerntheoreme and operative closure more difficult across the action across systems, so that control performance according Willke mainly arises from it to make the framework so that other systems such as stimulating treatment took up (contextual control).

Since the beginning of the decade ( Atopia series) is Willke employed primarily with issues of the sociology of knowledge and global governance. In contrast to Luhmann he takes no world society, because although given the global communicative accessibility, control over global politics were not sufficiently pronounced. Willke goes instead of the existence of so-called Lateral world systems that specifically apply control services for each global function system and are comparable in their differentiation with the functional systems of national societies.

Awards

Publications

  • Demystification of the state. Reflections on a social control theory, Königstein / Ts. ( Atheneum ) 1983.
  • System theory developed societies, Munich, 1989; 2nd edition, 1993.
  • Irony of the state. Outline of a theory of the state polycentric society, Frankfurt aM 1992 ( Suhrkamp ).
  • Systems Theory I: An introduction to the basic problems, Stuttgart 1982 ( Fischer UTB ); 6th edition 2000.
  • Systems theory II: intervention theory. Introduction to the theory of intervention in complex social systems, Stuttgart 1994 ( Fischer, UTB ); 3rd edition, 1999.
  • System Theory III: Control Theory, Stuttgart 1995 ( Fischer, UTB ); 3rd edition, 2001.
  • Supervision of the state. Frankfurt q.s. 1997 ( Suhrkamp ).
  • Systemic Knowledge Management ( With Case Studies ), Stuttgart 1998 ( UTB ); 2nd revised edition, 2001.
  • Atopia. Studies on the atopic society, Frankfurt ( Suhrkamp ) 2001.
  • Dystopia. Studies on the crisis of knowledge of modern society, Frankfurt ( Suhrkamp ) 2002.
  • Heterotopia. Studies on the crisis of order in modern societies, Frankfurt ( Suhrkamp ) 2003.
  • Introduction to Systemic Knowledge Management, Heidelberg ( Carl -Auer ) 2004.
  • Symbolic systems. Outline of a sociological theory, Weilerswist ( Velbrück Science ) 2005.
  • Global Governance, Bielefeld 2006 ( transcript ).
  • Smart Governance. Governing the Global Knowledge Society, Frankfurt aM / New York (Campus ) 2007.
  • Gerhard Willke: Political Governance of Capitalism: A Reassessment Beyond the Global Crisis, 2012, ISBN 978-1781006184.
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